Find out what happened to the following hurricanes:

I had a reference question in grad school like this. It was "How far down the alphabet has the National Weather Service gotten, and what was the name and year of that storm?"

This was before the internet had as much free shit as it does now, and I was not allowed to consult an almanac. In fact, I called up the NWS press office, and they gave me an answer. (It was a T-name, in 1995.)

Just make sure your kid is older than hers and you're covered.

Just a thought.

OK, I guess I start making my way to class now. Nice that it's the second week of classes and I'm exhausted. @@

Try this link; they're all 2005 storms

All those names have been used multiple times. Gert-2005 wasn't a hurricane, so the teacher must mean one of the earlier Gerts, such as Gert-1999.

Dear Ben's Teacher:

FOUL!

Signed, Me

msbelle, if it helps any, Emmett's best friend is named Preston.

I don't know what Britney was thinking. Preston Msbelle sounds so much better than Preston Spears Federline.

There are no one syllable words in the south.

At the risk of having to EAT IT, that's not true. In fact some of our words have less syllables than northern/standard words. Take for example what we do with crawfish. Some people would say we boy-il them, they would be the people waiting around for us to boil (I cannot think of a way to spell that phonetically, but it only has one syllable) them.

ok, Heather called me on my hyperbole. Boll (the o is actually swallowed) is a good example, as is et, thar, ma, & pa.

and, of course, to speak of a "southern" accent as if there was one incarnation of such a thing is possibly the most ridiculous thing ever. EVER! There are a good 4 distinctive accents just within Texas.

I AM APPALLED that Britney stole it.

I'm sad that she had a boy. I had money on the baby name being "L'Oreal Diamond."

I shared an apartment with a native of Augusta, GA, a central North Carolinian, an Atlantan and one from Nashville.

They'd play duelling accents. And I ended up sounding like all of them mashed together for that semester.

That's another good one- my cousin, educated with a doctorate still says far for fire and mira for mirror. Mine's not nearly that thick, I have certain words that pinpoint where I'm from (boll, and other oi words, Loosiana, yestaday, and Chals) but other than that my English is pretty standard if slightly southern.

But McClellan says Bush intends to stress the "unprecedented'' nature of the hurricane that struck two weeks ago

Apart from, say, Galveston, the Labor Day Hurricane, Camille, and Hugo, then?

Thanks. Just checking.